MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 25/10/2024
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00:00Hello everyone, welcome to the big news of the afternoon, right away the headlines of
00:21your newspaper.
00:22Israel announces the sending of a delegation to Qatar to negotiate an agreement on Gaza
00:29Hamas said it was open.
00:30To talk about the ceasefire in the Palestinian territory, the details in a few moments.
00:36In Mozambique, the former provincial governor of 47 years, Daniel Chappot, was elected president.
00:45This is what the electoral commission announces after the contested scrutiny of October 9
00:51last.
00:52Clashes broke out between the forces of the order and demonstrators.
00:56We meet right away for the development.
00:59And then 11 days from the presidential election to 11 days from the presidential election in the United States.
01:06It is in Texas that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are venturing.
01:10The first to talk about the right to abortion, the second to evoke the migratory crisis.
01:18And we start this newspaper in Morocco where Princess Lala Hessna and his excellency Sheikh
01:32El Meyessa bint Hamid El Thani presided yesterday at the El Badir Palace in Marrakech the dinner
01:39of Gala of the Arabian Fashion Trust, an event organized as part of the cultural year
01:45Qatar-Morocco 2024.
01:47Princess Lala Hessna proceeded to hand over trophies, including the first prize of the Arabian Fashion Trust
01:56in the evening outfit category to the stylist Yasmin Mansour, initiated by Years of Culture.
02:01The cultural year Qatar-Morocco 2024 testifies to the depth and solidity of historical links between
02:08the two brother peoples and the two heads of state.
02:10His Majesty King Mohammed and His Highness Sheikh El Meyessa bint Hamid El Thani.
02:16Israel announced yesterday the sending of a delegation to Qatar to negotiate an agreement
02:26on Gaza involving a liberation of the hostages.
02:29Hamas said it was open to talk about a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory devastated by
02:35more than a year of war after discussions at the Kerr between Egyptian officials and
02:40a delegation from Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu.
02:43We will see in Qatar his external information manager, Mossad David Barnea, who must meet
02:50the head of the CIA, Bill Burns, and the Qatari Prime Minister to discuss different options
02:55for the resumption of negotiations on the liberation of the hostages.
03:13Meanwhile, new Israeli strikes aimed at the night of Thursday to Friday in Lebanon,
03:22killing three journalists.
03:24This is what the Lebanese press agency ANI announces, which specifies that Israeli warplanes
03:30carried out a raid on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
03:32According to local media, the strike hit a hotel in Hezbollah, about 50 km south of Beirut.
03:39The most violent raid took place in Shwefet el Amrouchieh, where it destroyed two buildings
03:46and triggered a major fire.
03:52Politics also led us to Mozambique, where Daniel Chapeau, a former 47-year-old provincial
03:58governor, was elected president.
04:00This is what the electoral commission of this country announces.
04:02More than two weeks after the 9 October scrutiny, a contested scrutiny in the street,
04:08and full of many irregularities.
04:10At the announcement of his victory, confrontations in several cities between police officers
04:16and protesters resulted in injuries, as well as a death.
04:20This is what the police report in more detail.
04:23As a reminder, invested by the Frelimo in power for half a century now,
04:28Daniel Chapeau has obtained, I remind you,
04:31nearly 71% of the votes against 20% of the votes for his opponent,
04:35Venantchot Montdlanet denounces cheats in this scrutiny,
04:40where participation has been particularly low.
04:46The Elysée confirms the state visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco
04:50from October 28 to 30 next year.
04:52A visit made on the invitation of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI.
04:57A visit that also and above all dedicates the renewal of a deep friendship relationship
05:02for the Elysée.
05:03And moreover, it aims to mark a new ambition for decades to come.
05:08According to the French executive, it is about inscribing this relationship
05:12in a context of rapid transformation of the international scene.
05:16French authorities are also committed to supporting the respective economic,
05:21energy, health and environmental sovereignties,
05:24but also to support the Kingdom in its ambition to make the 2025 framework
05:30and the 2030 global framework elements of great scope and great success.
05:36And according to the Elysée, the ambitions of Rabat and Paris are now in the continuity,
05:41a position decrypted by the editorialist and political analyst Moustapha Tosa,
05:46whom I propose to listen to.
05:48Yes, this tells us about the motives and reasons that have made France
05:54recently modify its vision of the Moroccan Sahara and openly supported
06:02the sovereignty of Morocco over the Sahara.
06:04This is not a reflection, a positioning of a day or of a context.
06:11It is really a political decision,
06:14purely thought out and which envisages dragging the two countries into a sequence.
06:20We have talked about the next 30 years.
06:22It is to say to what extent it is really a situation,
06:27a position that has been taken with a lot of logic and reason.
06:32So, on the occasion of this briefing that took place at the Elysée,
06:36we learned a few elements of information on this visit.
06:40We learned, for example, that the Minister of the Interior Bruno Rotailleux
06:46will be part of the delegation, which implies that the migration issue,
06:51whether it is legal migration or the fight against illegal migration,
06:55will be at the heart of this visit.
06:57We also learned that the Minister of the Army Sébastien Lecornu
07:01will be part of this delegation,
07:03which means that the arms contracts or military and security cooperation
07:10will be at the heart of this visit.
07:11What must also be said is that the Elysée has refused so far
07:15to reveal the extent of the economic contracts that Morocco will sign
07:18with France on this occasion.
07:20Maybe they want to reserve the advertising effects of these important contracts
07:25to the two heads of state who will meet on Monday.
07:28Another very important element, President Macron will speak on Tuesday
07:34in an extremely long speech in front of the Moroccan Parliament.
07:38And I think it is on this occasion that he will put his perspective,
07:43the positioning of France towards the sovereignty of Morocco on the Sable.
07:48In national news, also this figure to be retained, 4.49 billion dirhams.
07:54This is the net result adjusted by the Moroccan Telecom Group
07:57at the end of September 2024, a performance drop of 2.3%
08:01compared to the same period, a year before, the operational result.
08:06Adjusted, consolidated, has for its part reached 8.92 billion dirhams,
08:11a drop of 2.2% also on these results.
08:14At the end of September 30, the EBITDA margin adjusted was established at 32.5%.
08:24Araba Aziz Arnouch presided yesterday a meeting of a pilot committee
08:28charged with the offer of Morocco on green hydrogen,
08:32during which he was preceded by the pre-selection of a series of projects
08:36covering essentially three regions of the southern provinces of the Kingdom.
08:40These are the regions of Gilbin Oued Noun, Laayoun Sarkia Alhamra and Dakhla Oued El Daheb.
08:45The examination of these projects will be in depth with their bearers
08:48in application of the other royal instructions,
08:51which also aims to accelerate the implementation of the offer to Morocco
08:54in the field of green hydrogen.
08:58She devoted her life to working for the well-being of children.
09:02The Moroccan Rizlen Benjeloun was designated Personality 2024 of the UN in Morocco
09:08on the occasion of the UN Day,
09:10distinction awarded in recognition of her long-standing commitment
09:14in favor of the mental health of children and the promotion of their rights.
09:19Benjeloun Rizlen is said to be honored for this distinction she dedicates, I quote,
09:25to each child and each adult who fights for the rights of children,
09:29because their future and the future of our society depends on our ability
09:32to place their mental well-being at the heart of all our priorities.
09:36End of quote.
09:40Let's go straight to a presidential tour in the United States.
09:54Yes, we can. Kamala Harris took back Thursday in Atlanta the famous slogan of Barack Obama
10:02during a campaign meeting where the first black American president played the guest star
10:07alongside Bruce Springsteen.
10:09At the same time, Donald Trump concluded a speech in Arizona.
10:14Another state that will be decisive for this election scrutinized by the whole world.
10:19The Republican candidate compared the United States to the trash of the world.
10:23The two candidates focus their strength on the five pivotal states.
10:28We see it in which neither of them has managed to dig the gap for the time being.
10:36And Kamala Harris decided to dramatize the issues of the election in the last straight line
10:41for her return to this key state in the southeast of the United States
10:45against Donald Trump, whom she publicly called a fascist.
10:49The vice president decided to bet everything on the defense of democracy
10:53before the next November 5, at a time when, I told you, no poll manages to divide the two candidates.
11:02Donald Trump, who will be the oldest president to swear allegiance if he is elected,
11:06continues his frenzied rhythm of campaign meetings across the country.
11:10The candidate of 78A was in Arizona.
11:15They want to save our country. They're going to save our country.
11:19And on the 11th day of the presidential election in the United States, she is in Texas.
11:23Today, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump venture to talk about the right to abortion.
11:29The second to once again evoke the migratory crisis in Houston.
11:33The Democratic candidate will be joined by superstar Beyoncé.
11:38The 78-year-old Republican is expected to criticize again the porosity of the southern border of the United States.
11:47And it will be in Austin.
11:48A similar strategy is seen in this state of Texas, which should normally offer a platform to Donald Trump,
11:55to its great voters.
11:58However, this is also one of the very rare states that could allow Democrats to gain a seat in the Senate.
12:06Kamala Harris will therefore support the candidate Colleen Allred, in a position to create perhaps a big surprise.
12:26And it's time to invite the big news of the afternoon.
12:31Emmanuel Macron's visit is the first to return to official character.
12:36He had already made two visits to the kingdom in June 2017,
12:42as part of a visit of friendship and work.
12:45Then in November 2018, for the official inauguration, we remember the TGV Tangier Casablanca.
12:51So to tell us about this state visit that President Emmanuel Macron will make in Morocco from October 28th,
13:00we are live with Roudani, an expert in international relations and geostrategy.
13:05Hello and welcome to you.
13:08Hello Madam, and thank you very much for this invitation to describe and dissect
13:14the next state visit of President Macron in Morocco.
13:18So precisely, yes, on the program of this state visit of the French president in the kingdom,
13:23there is a face-to-face interview between the head of the Elysée and His Majesty, King Mohammed VI.
13:28What are, according to you, the key topics that will be discussed?
13:35Yes, you know, the relations between Morocco and France are relations built on a long history
13:41of strategic, economic and cultural cooperation.
13:44Of course, we live in a crossroads where new perspectives of the development of this relationship are taking shape.
13:53Today, Morocco is a watchtower, a bastion in a world that is boiling.
14:00A watchtower because it has the strength to observe, the strength and the ability to work and anticipate crises.
14:09A bastion because in a world and in a geopolitical environment that is very difficult, very complicated,
14:14Morocco has been able to conceive this iron solidity to be a shield against threats and dangers that proliferate in the region, in this region.
14:26In fact, today, this relationship is called to be strengthened.
14:31There are several issues, of course.
14:34Economic issues are very, very important.
14:36Demonstrations and also political and strategic issues.
14:40The recognition of France, of the territorial integrity of Morocco and of the entire sovereignty of Morocco over its southern provinces is a gallant theme in the regional race.
14:52It is a recognition that I can consider as a historical turning point in this artificial dossier.
15:01And also, therefore, there are issues of strategic demotion.
15:06His Majesty initiated two initiatives of geostrategic demotion.
15:12The registration of the countries of the Sahel and the Sub-Saharan Africa in the geostrategy of the Atlantic and also the political project of the Atlantic,
15:21which will be this junction between the geopolitical doctrine of the north of the Atlantic with the United States and the European countries,
15:31and particularly France, with the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical doctrine of the Americans.
15:38Morocco proposes a new geopolitical doctrine of the South Atlantic with the registration of the Afro-Atlantic countries in this geostrategic of the Atlantic space.
15:51In fact, today we are in a stage of strengthening bilateral exchanges, of course.
15:57There is also security and defense cooperation.
16:00So you know, today, the security issue.
16:03Yes, absolutely.
16:04This aspect of defense and security, we will talk about it, is very important.
16:10Indeed, you are right.
16:11But there is an important moment, an organ point of this visit of the French President to Morocco.
16:18It is Emmanuel Macron's speech in front of the Moroccan Parliament on October 29.
16:23It will be a historic moment of this state visit, which aims to mark the Elysée, to remind it, a new ambition for the next 30 years.
16:31So what analysis do you make of this partnership that is redrawn between Rabat and Paris and which is clearly in a long term?
16:45Yes, absolutely.
16:48But the first thing, we must say today that France, today, in front of the geopolitical system and the world system that is settling with the crisis, the Ukrainian war, is in a reconstruction of an alliance system with the EU at the end.
17:04The French alliance system is being rebuilt.
17:08As I have just said, today, in the region of the Maghreb and Africa, you know the problems we have in France, in the countries of the Sahel, with Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, the operations Barkhane, Cerval, all that, these failures there.
17:22So today, we are, France is in a situation that requires a strategic redeployment, another way of conceiving things.
17:31I think today, Morocco offers an economic development model, offers a systemic model capable of strengthening all the strategic cooperation links of the world with the African continent.
17:46I think today, this speech of Emmanuel Macron in the Moroccan parliament is very symbolic because it shows the power and strength of bilateral relations between Paris and Rabat and also shows the particular attention given by the French president to participatory democracy and representative democracy.
18:10Because he is going to speak in the parliament, so it is the symbol of Moroccan democracy, it is also the symbol of representative democracy.
18:19So I think today, among the things that I imagine we should try to discuss, I think the economic system, the economic development system, the French economic development ecosystem with the Moroccan economic development ecosystem that requires a coupling to refine really strategic alliances for an ambition for the years or centuries to come.
18:44I think today, indeed, in the context of...
18:46Precisely, Mr. Rodani, you have just mentioned the two development plans of France and Morocco, this state visit, also for the purpose of talking about these development models,
19:01in particular, the France 2030 plan and the plan of the new Moroccan development model. What would be the common objectives of these two plans, France 2030 and Morocco 2030?
19:16Listen, Morocco and France share common interests, for example, for the automobile, for the energy transition, for renewable energies.
19:26I think with the experience of Morocco today in terms of the development of solar energy, the investment projects, for example, in green infrastructures, could offer a sustainable growth opportunity.
19:40So, and to strengthen this attractiveness of French companies to invest in Morocco.
19:49The second thing, which is very important, is that today we are talking about pharaonic investments of French companies in the southern provinces.
19:57This is a vision that is part of the strategy of His Majesty, which launched in 2015 the new economic development model of the southern provinces, with investments amounting to about 80 billion dirhams so far.
20:14So, I think today, of course, we are in a cooperation strategy and also with a perspective to solve certain challenges concerning this shared competitiveness of Moroccan companies and French companies.
20:33Also, there is artificial intelligence. Also, there is aeronautics, energy. So, there are several areas that are able to strengthen this attractiveness of the two countries on the regional level, on the continental level and on the global level.
20:47Let's not forget, Madam, that, for example, all companies in the K40 are represented in Morocco. There are several, about a thousand, more than a thousand French companies are installed in Morocco.
21:00Let's not forget also that France is the first visitor to Morocco and is the second supplier of Morocco.
21:06In fact, today we are in a perspective of relations between Morocco and France that remains promising, with the possibility of deepening strategic alliances in the green economy, as I have just told you.
21:21Cultural cooperation is also very, very important. And I imagine that to capitalize on these opportunities, there is a call for a strong mutual commitment, an adaptation to global challenges and a support for innovations that are essential in the face of the challenges that are planned in the region and internationally.
21:46Okay. So, in this perspective of relations that is strengthening between Parra, Rabat and Paris, there is also this wish to respond to the aspirations of the new generations.
21:58This is one of the objectives that Parra said he wanted to achieve through the visit of the French President to Morocco. How could the complementarity of the partnership between France and Morocco effectively respond to this question of the new generations?
22:16Yes, you know, the world today, for example, Morocco and France, as I have just told you, is a history, a relationship that has a historical anchor.
22:28Let's not forget that more than 200,000 Moroccans fought alongside the French in the First World War and the Second World War.
22:40So, in fact, today we are, and when Charles de Gaulle calls for Mohamed V as the companion of liberation, these are political messages that we must always keep in our minds.
22:57That is to say that Morocco was a country pioneering in the sovereignty of France at a time that was very difficult, very complicated for French territorial integrity.
23:08Today, therefore, we are in a world that is moving. We are in a world where there is a moment of globalization.
23:14There is therefore this vision of coming to couple the cultural aspect and the identity of each country, to strengthen it, but all while remaining open because we are in a globalization that is strengthening, in a globalization that is developing with other codes, with other objectives.
23:36And I think today that academic cooperation and the development of exchange programs are vectors of cultural influence that could also contribute to the strengthening of diplomatic, political and cultural ties between Rabat and Paris.
23:51I think today, tomorrow, it is a set of systems of equation that also requires a more strategic vision capable of strengthening and therefore strengthening these ancestral ties between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco.
24:08I think today that there is a historical sitting. We must develop this. We must try to look at this communion that brings us together, that brings Morocco together with France.
24:22France is an Atlantic country, so the Atlantic for us is a domain, a space that is able to bring us together on shared values. This is why Morocco is a pioneering country in Francophonie.
24:35As I said many times on your channel, Francophonie today is no longer just the French language. Francophonie is a strategic vision, a geopolitical project capable of bringing together the entire Francophone community on values, values and principles of solidarity.
24:56I think we need to work on innovative educational projects because we are in an accelerating world today. We are talking about artificial intelligence, we are talking about sustainable development with other parameters. We are talking about blue hydrogen, not green hydrogen.
25:15So we must try to strengthen these Moroccan-French talents by strengthening them in the positioning of the two nations in the academic and scientific fields and also in the new generations of technology because the world of tomorrow is artificial intelligence.
25:32Thank you very much.
25:35Thank you Rodani for answering our questions. I remind you that you have been with us since Rabat and that you are an expert in international relations and geostrategy. Thank you.
25:51And thank you. This is the end of this newscast.